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Walter O. Huegel wrote: > The June 7, 1999 issue of the New Yorker magazine has a long profile > article about Dr. Harold Varmus, CEO of the NIH. He is a political > appointee of Clinton, brought in by Donna Shalala. His thinking has done > much to set the course of the NIH in the direction of so called pure > research, rather than as earmarking for specific diseases. PWP, > unfortunately live in the immediacy. A case may be made for both > approaches. Why not a compromise, e.g., putting more money where there > is a clinical payoff in sight? Dr..Varmus is personally health > conscious, a free wheeling spirit, he rides his bike to work. Good for a > healthy body, and self concept.